Introduction to LISP
The LISP language was developed
at MIT in the 1950s. The development team was lead by J. McCarthy. Its main purpose was
for symbol manipulation, which was perfect for artificial intelligence. For those interested,
LISP was based on "lambda calculus."
Among programming languages, LISP is very convenient. LISP programmers need not concern themselves
with certain tasks and responsibilities that are required in most other languages. LISP is especially
powerful for operations involving lists of data (LISP actually stands for "LISt Processing"). Since
knowledge representation is a central part of artificial intelligence, LISP is commonly used in
AI applications.
